EFF: AfriForum’s fighting a losing battle on Malema’s prosecution

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has responded to the move by AfriForum to prosecute its leader Julius Malema on allegations of fraud and corruption.

The civil society organisation’s head of announced on Thursday that it would be instituting private prosecutions against the red berets reader.

The allegations are related to a R25 Million tender award to On Point Engineering in Limpopo. The project was to run and oversee the province’s roads and transport unit. The case was previously struck off the roll back in 2015.

The party said the case was struck off the roll because National Prosecutions Authority (NPA) couldn’t present a solid case before the Court of Law.

Malema took to social media where he said he was ready for the legal battle “bring it on bloody racists, you don’t scare me at all. I’m born ready! No white man will decide my destiny, the poor masses of our people will”.

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The POWER Update host Dianne Hawker spoke to EFF acting spokesperson, Tebogo Mokwele who said the party has noted the “nonsensical attempt of the ultra right wing formation of white racists, Afriforum to deflect the attention of the EFF by pursuing our President through private prosecutions”.

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The red berets questioned the motive behind AfriForum’s decision to prosecute Malema, accusing the lobby group of targeting the EFF leader because he endorsed the expropriation of land without compensation.

The party reassured that it respected and was aware that South Africa’s Laws permits private prosecutions, however they knew “with absolute certainty that Afriforum’s pursuit of Malema is not about the rule of law, but an attempt to deflect the attention of the EFF from economic emancipation struggles, in particular land expropriation without compensation”.

Mokwele further added that the party was “fully behind Malema and will not be deterred by reactionary right wing formations of white people, whose primary purpose is to protect white privilege and supremacy.

What AfriForum does not know is that racist persecution and prosecution of the EFF President will just multiply the mass support behind the struggle for land expropriation without compensation.

What Afriforum does not know is that their attempts at suppressing a political programme through Courts will dismally fail.

Afriforum and all its sympathizers should know that their racist efforts will make us more determined. Land expropriation without compensation will happen in South Africa and no amount of intimidation and dirty tricks will stop that.